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Olympus 14-42II R lens help - please

Started May 3, 2014 | Discussions thread
jlehet Regular Member • Posts: 131
Re: Olympus 14-42II R lens help - please

I think my copy of this lens must be a very bad copy. It must generally be better than my copy. For one thing the test on slrgear.com looks pretty good.

I also have the oly 12-40/2.8, and I just bought a used panny 14-45. I did a test in my backyard comparing the three, and my copy of the 14-42II isn't even close to the other two. I don't mean to be a snob about kit lenses; a lot of my really good images have come from nikon kit lenses. Like I say, it must be my copy. I don't even feel good selling it on ebay.

I bought the panny 14-45 to use on my infrared camera, but I figured I would test it in visible light too. In infrared the panny beats the two Olys Most of the time. And it sure beats this 14-42 in visible light, except regarding weight.

I started out in MFT with this kit lens, and I didn't really warm up to MFT until I got some other lenses. Now I love MFT, but I won't use that lens.

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